The Outer Banks

I just spent a wonderful 2 days at the Outer Banks. I hadn't been feeling well and it was the perfect medicine for me!! Sharon shared her beach house with me and we just relaxed! We ate at my favorite beach restaurant....The Rundown Cafe. We went to the Sound and waited for the sun to set. It was so beautiful! The next morning, we spent some time on the ocean...the sound of the surf is soothing to my soul! Sharon and I were talking about one song that talks about the "who tells the ocean, you can only come this far......." and of course, it is God. As we watched it, it stopped in the exact right place and then back out it went! In perfect harmony of God's symphony! Nothing is more peaceful! I am thankful for the opportunity to live close to a place like that and to be able to visit it for a time.

This day in June

I always say that if you blink in June, it will be over! This month always seems to just go by so quickly that I can hardly remember what happened in it. I know we went to Ohio...very quickly for a graduation and we went to Amish Country. That was such a great trip. Korie finished up school and Kristin has been going to the YMCA. Yesterday, she left with the mission team for Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to work with our missionaries, the Jacobsen's, as they minister to Haitian people. Kristin is in charge of leading grades 8-12 during game time in VBS. She was a little worried about not getting much time to make one on one relationships with the kids but she is going to help Danielle and Brendan during teaching time so that will help.

It was kinda hard to say good bye to her as she got on the plane yesterday. It seems each good- bye is a little closer to THE good bye as her senior year begins. But, it was a good feeling to know she was going to have some great experiences serving people of another culture. And it was a great idea last week for the team to shadow us as we worked in OUR vbs. Now they have a little idea of what they are doing. Besides Kristin being close to my heart, I am also praying and thinking of the music team who worked all last week with Bebe and I..Alan Pitt, Sara Simmons, Bobby Newman and Nick Doyle. I know they will do a great job and I can't wait to see pictures of them on the blog as they serve. I wish I could be there to observe.

Well, I still feel weak, healthwise, today. I feel like my body just isn't catching up from being sick or something is still wrong with me. Even though that is going on, I am going to drive to Nags Head tomorrow for day or two with Sharon Warren. The beach and the waves and the atmosphere there is always so healing for me so I am hoping I am making a good decision about going.

So, I am trying to hang on, to pray for and wish growth for my oldest, whom I miss very much and I am glad that Korie has something new to do this week by going to her grandparents house while I am gone.

Wow! It has been awhile!

Well, it has been a long time since I wrote in this blog! I have been kinda busy. A lot has actually happened since that ring banquet....my my...that was a year ago! Since then, Kristin got her drivers permit, finished her junior year, went on a missions trip to Honduras, played on four teams....I am way behind. Korie has reached her last year of middle school, had a surgery, gone to camp by herself...why didn't I wrote then!! She had a BLAST!

I am facing some health issues right now. I will probably have lots to write about that soon. I have learned some STUFF already! Pastor has been preaching about Faith for several months now as we study Genesis. As Abraham's faith was tested, I wondered a lot about that. My faith was tested when Korie was born in some ways I failed because it took me 2 years to forgive God and not blame him. Then all the stuff with my dad really challenged me. He had such an awful death and he was such a faithful man. I couldn't put the two together. I wanted answers and didn't accept it with out any. I knew God was close through those two trials but I was kinda mad at Him. I got over that and I regret those reactions. As I pondered Abraham's choices and as I am studying Job again for the 3rd time in the last 10 years, I have come to admire them.

I have been praying a lot these past few months to God and telling Him I really trust Him but I have begged Him not to test me in that through Korie, Kristin or Steve. It never ocurred to me to add myself. Now I am facing some things. And I have a feeling that Satan had a hand in what I was tested in, such as he did with Job, and God allowed it. My only thought about that maybe being true is that he picked the thing that scares me the most....anything with the word LIVER in it. So I feel I AM being tested and I am trying to totally trust God this time. I need prayer and I need God for this.

So that is where I am now. I want to be more faithful in my loggings....we will see.

TTFN, Donna